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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Wentworth from 2004 to 2018.
The Turnbull government was the federal executive government of Australia led by the 29th prime minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, from 2015 to 2018.It succeeded the Abbott government, which brought the Coalition to power at the 2013 Australian federal election.
Turnbull became the first former Opposition Leader (in contrast to a sitting one) to become Prime Minister, with the notable exceptions of John Howard and Robert Menzies (who had both had a hiatus between a previous period as opposition leader and a current period, when each became Prime Minister - in Menzies case for the second time).
The first Turnbull ministry (Liberal–National Coalition) was the 69th ministry of the Government of Australia, led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.It succeeded the Abbott ministry after a leadership spill that took place on 14 September 2015 ended Prime Minister Tony Abbott's leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia. [1]
In September 2015, Malcolm Turnbull called for another spill, directly challenging Tony Abbott in a rematch between the two, and winning the vote 54–44 to return to the position of leader of the Liberal Party, and as a result, displaced Abbott as Prime Minister of Australia.
Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull fronted the media on August 23 and described the threat to his leadership and the shutdown of the House of Representatives as an “internal insurgency ...
On 14 September 2015, the incumbent Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, was challenged for the leadership of the Liberal Party and thus the prime ministership by Malcolm Turnbull, the Minister for Communications. Turnbull won the vote 54–44 and on 15 September was sworn in as prime minister, starting the Turnbull government. On 11 February 2016 ...
The appointment is effective from June 1, KKR said in a statement. Turnbull, 64, served as Australia's 29th prime minister from September 2015 to August 2018, when he was ousted in a leadership ...